Best of 2024: Our Young Adult favourites of the year

Our librarians have compiled a list of the Young Adult books we've loved in 2024.

In this list you'll find books published in 2024, as well as books "discovered" by our librarians in 2024.

Updated December 29, 2024
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Wellington City Libraries Youth team at Wellington City Libraries
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Dragonfruit
Lucier, Makiia
Paper Book
An Asian/Pacific American Award Honor Book A USA TODAY bestseller One of NPR's 2024 "Books We Love" A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2024 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2024 From acclaimed...
I think our son is gay. 5
Okura (Mangaka)
Paper Book
A doting mother and her two beloved sons, one of whom she thinks is probably gay, go about their daily lives in this hilarious and heartwarming LGBTQIA+-friendly family comedy! Tomoko is no stranger to change. With two boys in high school and a husband who's away on the job a lot, being able to...
The princess and the grilled cheese sandwich
Muniz, Deya
Paper Book
Lady Camembert wants to live life on her own terms, without marriage. Well, without marrying a man, that is. But the law of the land is that women cannot inherit. So when her father passes away, she does the only thing she can: She disguises herself as a man and moves to the capital city of the...
Northern lights
Pullman, Philip
Paper Book
In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall.  Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the...

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